This is the first Article of our Blogging Support Section. In this Article, We shall explain you:
- What is a Blog?
- What is Blogger?
- How Blogger Blog is Useful?
- Advantages of a Blogger Blog.
- Limitations of a Blogger Blog.
What is Blog?
The word "blog" came the word "Web Log"
The simplest definition of a blog is "A website on which an individual or group of users record or share their opinions, information etc. to the world (Public) or Some indiviuals (Like some special peoples or contacts) on regular basis.
Simply, A blog is a collection of content that is organized repetitively. This content can take the form of basic words (copy) as well as rich media (audio, video, and embeddable objects).
What is Blogger?
Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped posts or articles.Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms.
To Use Blogger, Go to www.blogger.com
In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling,Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:
- Adding location to posts via geotagging.
- Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
- Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
- Link editing in Compose mode.
- Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
- New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
- Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode.
- New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.
The most important feature of Blogger is, it supports various languages:Arabic, Bengali, Indonesia, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Nepali, Farashi.
How Blogger Blog is Useful?
Since a Blogger Blog is directly connected to the world wide web,so you can send your voice directly or indirectly to any part of the world with this platform.
- With a blog, you can send any information to any one with information is for public or some special ones.
- With a Blog, you can earn money. If your blog content is good and your blog's traffic (Visitors) is appropriate, you can earn money with it. "In Next Posts We Shall Describe How You Can Earn Money"
- If you want to be Web Designer a blog is the perfect step to dive into this stream because with a blog you can learn the basic fundamentals of web designing like SEO (Search Engine Optimization), HTML (Hyper Text Markup Lanuage), JavaScript and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets).
Advantages of a Blogger Blog.
- The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
- "Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger. However, Microsoft Office 2007adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
- Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
- Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue. It was not publically announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended.
- Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.
- Blogger offers a template editing feature, which allows users to customize the Blogger template.
- Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.
- Blogger Private Blog features: Blogger offers a private blog that can be only access by author or invited readers /authors or admins only .
- Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
- Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.
Blogger on mobile devices
Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. Users can post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger through their mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS.
Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS |
The major two mobile operation systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and iOS. Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts and drafts is accessible from a list. Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries. Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locations. Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger.
Limitations of a Blogger Blog.
Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account:- Blog description = 500 characters. HTML mark up not supported.
- Number of blogs = 100 blogs per account.
- Number of labels = 5000 unique labels per blog (increased from the original 2000), 20 unique labels per post
- Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web Album) = Up to 1 GB of free storage ( As of April 2012, disk space allocated is 5 GB)
- Number of posts =There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog.
- Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
- Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 300 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 1600px.
- Stand-Alone Pages = Limited to 20 stand-alone pages.
- Team members (those who can write to a blog) = 100 invitations per blog.
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